Is dropping plat (on the ground) classic?
 

I can't remember if this is classic or not, but I'm pretty sure I remember being able to drop coinage on the ground. Here I can only drop items.

I did some searching and did not see another thread about this. Can anybody confirm either way?

Yes, its how most people transfered stuff in classic. I dont know if its client side or not. But you could indeed drop coin on classic.

Best image I could find on google hehe

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You most definitely could drop coin on the ground.

As far as I know, it is not possible with Titanium onward. Maybe a fix for it will be found somewhere.

They stopped it because people used to exploit by dropping coin, and /qing out before the game saved them, then logging back in, still having the coin and having the coin on the ground.

It also crashed zones, if done in large enough quantities.

Something about running across the Karanas, leaving a breadcrumb trail of copper. Servers didn't like that.

I don't understand that. What is /qing? How does a player NOT get saved when they "log out"? How do other mmorpgs prevent this from happening? Is this how people, in general, dupe?

You said they removed coins from dropping, but players could still drop items. So what stops a player from dropping an item, and /qing out before the gave saved them and logging back in with two duplicates of the item? That's the same exact behavior, just not with coins. Are players doing that now, as we speak?

I say re-enable shared banks instead of bothering with this. As it is right now the only way to transfer plat is asking someone else to hold it.

In classic, not sure till when. A consented corpse could also be looted to the one consented. That was also a way of transfering. It got changed before Kunark tho because alot of people would get dry looted when just trying to get thier corpse drug when they were balls deep in a dungeon.

A looong time ago, the game "saved" your character every I think 30 seconds. So people would drop coin, and /quit out before the game auto saved, when they came back, they still had their old coin count, plus the world had saved the coin on the ground. When that exploit was discovered they stopped allowing coins to be dropped I think.

Removing coin drop happened post Kunark
 

Im sure of that, as I used to drop plat I earned selling Wu's Armor to Iksar monks, so that I could xfer that plat to a mule that was bound in Antonica
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